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@@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ dual-license for you to choose from.
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No, because it's public domain you can freely relicense it to whatever license your new
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library wants to be.
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+#### What's the deal with SSE support in GCC-based compilers?
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+stb_image will either use SSE2 (if you compile with -msse2) or
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+will not use any SIMD at all, rather than trying to detect the
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+processor at runtime and handle it correctly. As I understand it,
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+the approved path in GCC for runtime-detection require
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+you to use multiple source files, one for each CPU configuration.
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+Because stb_image is a header-file library that compiles in only
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+one source file, there's no approved way to build both an
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+SSE-enabled and a non-SSE-enabled variation.
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+While we've tried to work around it, we've had multiple issues over
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+the years due to specific versions of gcc breaking what we're doing,
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+so we've given up on it. See https://github.com/nothings/stb/issues/280
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+and https://github.com/nothings/stb/issues/410 for examples.
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#### Some of these libraries seem redundant to existing open source libraries. Are they better somehow?
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Generally they're only better in that they're easier to integrate,
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Sean Barrett